In normal mice and humans, the blood sugar-regulating hormone insulin is produced by beta cells, while amylase, a digestive enzyme, is manufactured by acinar cells. The functions of acinar and ...

In normal mice and humans, the blood sugar-regulating hormone insulin is produced by beta cells, while amylase, a digestive enzyme, is manufactured by acinar cells. The functions of acinar and ...

Researchers are exploring a new potential avenue for pancreatitis treatment: autophagy, a cellular recycling process.

While better screening and improved treatments are leading to better outcomes for patients with breast cancer, 90% of breast cancer deaths are a result of metastasis, or the cancer growing and ...

Management outcomes of localized low-risk prostate cancer: A population-based study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

Age-old epidemiologic studies indicate that cancer is influenced by environmental factors. While some factors act by altering mutation rates, others work through epigenetic mechanisms that we suspect ...

Cerulein or alcohol impairs autophagy at multiple steps to promote pancreatitis. Cerulein or alcohol decreases pancreatic VMP1 to impair the closure of autophagosomes. Cerulein also decreases STX17 to ...

Japanese industrial conglomerate Asahi Kasei Corp. has made an offer to acquire Swedish rare diseases specialist Calliditas Therapeutics AB for SEK11.8 billion (US$1.1 billion). The offer, at an 83% ...

[33] CFA is characterized by inflammation, damage, and progressive fibrosis in the acinar regions of the lungs, which suggests that genes that influence the processes of inflammation (eg ...

Salivary levels of thioredoxin were also significantly higher in patients with Sjögren's syndrome than in controls, and high levels of thioredoxin expression were observed in acinar cells of 13 ...

CalciMedica Inc. ("CalciMedica") (Nasdaq: CALC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channel inhibition therapies for acute ...